transitive verb. To deprive of the right of church membership by ecclesiastical authority.

transitive verb. To exclude by or as if by decree from membership or participation in a group.

noun. A person who has been excommunicated.

adjective. Having been excommunicated.

Cut off from communion; excommunicated.

noun. One who is excommunicated; one cut off from any privilege.

Eccles., to cut off by an ecclesiastical sentence, either from the sacraments of the church or from all fellowship and intercourse with its members. See excommunication.

Hence To expel from and deprive of the privileges of membership in any association.

To prohibit on pain of excommunication.

adjective. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

transitive verb. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

transitive verb. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

adjective. Excommunicated.

noun. A person so excluded.

verb. To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.

verb. To exclude from any other group; to banish.

verb. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

verb. exclude from a church or a religious community

"This is it that the faithful stood in fear of, as long as they stood excommunicate, that is to say, in an estate wherein their sins were not forgiven."

excommunication  

boot out  drum out  exclude  expel  keep out  

communicate  

abbat  boldnesse  campe  diche  disjoin  

accurse  anathematize  attaint  ban  banish  

excommunicated  excommunicates  excommunicating